Whitney Cummings' Positive Spin on Mom Shamers
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00:00I think that, you know, the major, you know, the major, major thing is like realizing how
00:08hard I am on myself and how, you know, going to the internet or going to other people for
00:16the truth or what I should do.
00:19We've all like started doing this where you're just like, what am I supposed to do?
00:23And who am I supposed to vote for?
00:24And who am I supposed to be?
00:25And who's, what's going to get me likes?
00:27And then I stopped trusting my gut and my instincts, you know, so long ago because I'm
00:32afraid that there's going to be negative comments or people are going to disapprove or there's
00:36going to be backlash and that's okay.
00:39And it didn't take till having a kid cause mom, mom, Instagram, mom, tick tock is a wild.
00:47If you post your kid doing something, they will let you know.
00:51And there is no universally accepted way to do anything.
00:55I mean, I literally posted a video of me changing my son's diaper.
00:58I tried to just share things that are like, this works for me.
01:01This made things a little bit easier.
01:03And I'm like blowing up a balloon and just shaking it so that he'll be distracted so
01:06I can change his diaper.
01:07And it's like, you know, you're putting your baby's face on Instagram.
01:12That's a big one, which by the way, parents have always blasted their kids.
01:16Before Instagram, they had a photo in their wallet.
01:19They'd be like, here's my kid.
01:20It was a photo in a nasty wallet that you had to look at.
01:24There was take your daughter to work day.
01:26They would parade us around in person.
01:30That's not weird.
01:32Like there was a, there's photos of us on our parents' desks at work.
01:36We've always been blasted.
01:38You know what I mean?
01:39So there's that.
01:40And then there's, you have a balloon around your kid that he can bite it and swallow it.
01:43I'm like, okay.
01:44Like it's just.
01:46And then when I showed a photo of my, you know, a baby as I, after I gave birth and
01:52then there was this whole C-section, I was shaming C-section people and I was like,
01:56no, no, no, no.
01:57Oh, I was this close to getting a C-section.
01:59They had to cut me two inches and it was very touch and go.
02:03The fact that either of us survived is nothing short of a miracle.
02:07My next one, I probably will just schedule a C-section, you know?
02:10And then I showed myself breastfeeding and it's like, well, you're shaming women that
02:13can't breastfeed.
02:14And I was like, oh, two years later, two, I'm going to say two months later, there was
02:17no milk left.
02:18I was like, now I can't breastfeed anymore, you know?
02:20And then the breastfeeding people are like, you're giving your kid autism.
02:25I'm like, I've won.
02:26I have an amazing son and I'm choosing to just set the example of, you know, I'll just
02:32respond to the comments.
02:34Totally valid point.
02:35Just didn't work for us.
02:36Totally valid point.
02:37That's just not my, I'll use the word journey.